4 shootings during holiday weekend in Providence leave one dead

PROVIDENCE - One 28-year-old man was killed and a 15-year-old girl was wounded during four different overnight shootings that accompanied partying in the wake of the Independence Day holiday weekend, the police said Wednesday morning.

A total of four people, three adult men and the teen were shot after midnight Tuesday, said Providence police Detective Major David Lapatin.

At 12:30 a.m. Wednesday, Lapatin said, police and an emergency medical team went to 42 Glenham Ave. to attend to a girl who had sustained a non-life-threatening gunshot injury during a block party.

About 15 minutes before that, a drive-up party at a location on Dupont Drive, had drawn police to another shooting, said Lapatin.

Several people had rushed toward a 28-year-old man and one of them had fatally shot him. He was pronounced dead at Rhode Island Hospital, said Lapatin.

At about 1:30 a.m., he said, police dealt with the shooting of 22-year-old Dovan Reyes.

Reyes sustained a non-life-threatening gunshot injury, Lapatin said, when uninvited guests came to a house party on Elmwood Avenue.

Then, at 2 a.m., 38-year-old Michael Taylor arrived at Roger Williams Hospital with a non-life-threatening gunshot wound, Lapatin said.

On Monday, in advance of the holiday, another man, 18, had also arrived at Roger Williams with a gunshot wound. Lapatin said the man's injury was serious but not life-threatening.

He declined to identify by the man by name, citing the nature of the investigation.

This article originally appeared on The Providence Journal: July 4th weekend shootings in Providence leave 1 dead, 3 injured